Boston (the band)

I was listening to the first Boston album on my drive in, and was wondering if Tom Scholz (BS and MS Mechanical Engineering) would ever be in KC where we could host his visit, but when I looked them up, I found that they're still touring and making albums:  https://bandboston.com/ As a 1979 graduate, I remember BIG speakers on the steps of the Stratton Student Center blasting the 1977 album every day that summer.  He might just be too busy...

(Note posted later on 2/1/18:  There's an article in the Tau Beta Pi magazine about Tom Scholz.  You can read it for free.)

Fall Cerebral Event at Linda Hall Library

We spent a fascinating morning in the Rare Book Room at Linda Hall Library.  Dr. Ben Gross (Ph.D. History of Science, Princeton) put together a cool set of old books for us.

London (Hooke's Micrographia (1665), Willughby and Ray's De Historia Piscium (1686) and Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica (in English, 1729)):

Hooke's microscope

Willughby & Ray

Newton's first law

Then on to Paris (Émilie du Châtelet's Principes mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle (1759), Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie (1751), Lavoisier's Traité élémentaire de chimie (1789)).

Lavoisier

To Germany (Haeckel's Kunstformen der Nature (1904), Rontgen's Ueber eine neue Art van Strahlen (1895), and.... Einstein's Zur Electrodynamik bewegter Körper (1905):

Haeckel's art in nature book

Rontgen's famous hand X-ray

And then a real treat for us: three wonderful MIT books: Edgerton's Flash! (1939), Wiener's Cybernetics (1948) and Vannevar Bush' Science: The Endless Frontier (1945)

Here's a photo of some of our alumni that morning:

Steve, Deb, Eric and Eric's wife

Fall Cerebral Event 2017

The MIT-KC alumni will be touring the Linda Hall Library Rare Book Room, and then going to lunch at The Mixx on Main Street.  Day:  Saturday, 14 October 2017; time:  probably start at 10:30 am.  More details later.

Summer-sendoff Picnic report

We had a nice picnic in Shawnee Mission Park.  Our group include a toddler and an incoming freshman.  We grilled some hot dogs and enjoyed the pot-luck salads.  Our next event will be in the fall - watch for the announcement.

Summer Send-off Picnic

The MIT alumni/ae in the Kansas City area will be gathering for the Summer Send-off Picnic in Shawnee Mission Park on Sunday, 30 July 2017.  Thanks to Elaine for making the reservation.  Here is the Evite link:  http://evite.me/mY3CfE9ChC

5K & Breakfast

A small, but enthusiastic, group of MIT alumni/ae participated in the Tower2Tower 5K in Olathe, KS.  We were actually registered as a team (MIT-KC) for the race!

Farkan, Steve and Deb before the race

 Happy engineers after the race

Breakfast at Whole Foods after the race

Spring event - Tower2Tower 5k

The 2017 MIT-KC spring event includes participation in the Tower2Tower 5K in Lenexa, KS and post-race breakfast at the Whole Foods on 119th St in Olathe on May 6, 2017.  We have a team called MIT-KC for the race, and we're hoping for some great photo ops with lots of MIT t-shirts.  Please sign up through our Evite site that has more information.

2017 IAP Event

The renewed Kansas CIty group of MIT Alumni/ae met at O'Neill's in Overland Park at 95th & Mission Road.  We shared some stories, met new friends, ate some supper and took a Brass Rat photo.

Sarah had her Brass Rat refashioned into a bracelet.